The class and standard series of reading books. 5 pt. [in 7].1869 |
Términos y frases comunes
Alice Annie asked the little Aunt Sarah battledore and shuttlecock beautiful Bessie bright brother bustling called Capriole child cloak clock struck cold cottage cure dear Deborah Jones dinner Emma exclaimed Fanny Fanny's mother fell felt finger flower-pot flowers frock garden glad grandmother Gray hand happy hoop hour IDLE PATTY Indolence Jane Jenny Wilson lesson little bird little children little girl look lose my needles LOST DAY Lucy Mary match mend milk morning needle-case never nice o'clock once patch PEACH-BLOSSOM pinafore Pinky play pretty pretty things pulled purple jar quiet real plum riole roast goose Rose round Sally Painter shoes shuttlecock silly sisters skip soon South Wind stairs stone plum sure Sylvia tell thimble things thorn tired told took tooth toothache tree walk warm water-drop wintry wish Year's Eve
Pasajes populares
Página 154 - DOWN in a green and shady bed A modest violet grew ; Its stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view. And yet it was a lovely flower, Its colors bright and fair ! It might have graced a rosy bower, Instead of hiding there.
Página 145 - I wish that his hands had been placed on my head, That his arm had been thrown around me, And that I might have seen his kind look when he said, Let the little ones come unto me.
Página 132 - The children then began to sigh, And all their merry chat was o'er ; And yet they felt, they knew not why, More glad than they had done before.
Página 145 - Yet still to His footstool in prayer I may go, • And ask for a share in His love ; And if I thus earnestly seek Him below, I shall see Him and hear Him above...
Página 131 - When, hark ! a gentle hand they hear, Low tapping at the bolted door ; And thus, to gain their willing ear, A feeble voice was heard t...
Página 95 - Somebody is now dying," thought the little girl, — for her old grandmother, the only person who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her, that, when a star falls, it is a sign that a soul is going up to heaven.
Página 132 - A feeble voice was heard to implore : ' Cold blows the blast across the moor, The sleet drives hissing in the wind ; Yon toilsome mountain lies before, A dreary, treeless waste behind. ' My eyes are weak and dim with age ; No road, no path can I descry ; And these poor rags ill stand the rage Of such a keen, inclement sky. ' So faint I am, these tottering feet No more my feeble frame can bear ; My sinking heart forgets to beat, And drifting snows my tomb prepare.
Página 100 - LITTLE CHILDREN, LOVE ONE ANOTHER." A LITTLE girl, with a happy look, Sat slowly reading a ponderous book, All bound with velvet, and edged with gold, And its weight was more than the child could hold ; Yet dearly she loved to ponder it o'er, And every day she prized it more ; For it said — and she looked at her smiling mother — It said, " Little children, love one another.
Página 101 - The little girl did as her Bible taught, And pleasant, indeed, was the change it wrought ; For the boy looked up in glad surprise, To meet the light of her loving eyes ; His heart was full, he could not speak, But he pressed a kiss on his sister's cheek ; And God looked down on the happy mother.
Página 132 - So faint I am — these tottering feet No more my feeble frame can bear ; My sinking heart forgets to beat, And drifting snows my tomb prepare. " Open your hospitable door, And shield me from the biting blast ; Cold, cold it blows across the moor, The weary moor that I have passed...